Life in the Old West

Ever wonder when, where, and why “cowboys” came from? (And why are they called “cowboys” and not “horse boys”?) I would highly recommend a very readable, classic Western history book that contains the answers for just about any questions you’ve got about cowboys and the West where they lived and thrived. The book is “Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries” by David Dary. (If you follow the link I’ve created to the book title, you’ll find copies available on eBay.)

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Ran onto a nice resource blog for all of us who love Western novels. Don’t know why I hadn’t found this before. It’s a blog called “Western Fiction Review,” and it pretty much does exactly that: The author of the blog has some really nicely written reviews of Western novels, current and past, and some fascinating interviews with some Western writers — also current and recent past.

I haven’t looked all around the site yet, but I already would recommend it. I found this blog by Googling the name of an old friend of mine who’s been a very prolific Western novelist for more years than he or I would be willing to own up to — Frank Roderus (whom I believe I’ve referred to here before). Be sure to look around the “Western Fiction Review” site and read that interview, as well as several other very interesting interviews.

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